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When going to the interview, Li Li was very calm.
It’s not that she was well prepared or confident of passing the interview, but she knew the result after seeing the two candidates.
One is an actress who has worked with Vincent twice and was nominated for Best Actress for the film.
The other one was Li Li’s colleague from the theater troupe, Ning Xiaoxiao, who went to Broadway to watch the performance.
Seeing the two of them also coming for the interview at the interview venue, Li Lai consoled herself: "It's not shameful to lose to them."
He and Ning Xiaoxiao are also acquaintances. When they were in the troupe, they often made plans to have dinner and rehearse together.
A while ago, the two of them were on the hot search together because of a performance. There was no hostility or awkwardness when they met. After finding that the other party was there, they sat in the lounge and started chatting.
Ning Xiaoxiao said that she was rehearsing abroad, and a staff member came to tell her that an Asian man was looking for her at the theater entrance.
"I thought I was getting better. I had fans following me all the way from here to overseas. I was so happy that I ran to meet him. But then he said he was a director and wanted to act with me."
"And you agreed to him?"
"No, I was so busy with my troupe's performances at the time that I didn't have the energy to take on other roles. I turned him down several times, but he kept coming to me every day, armed with a bunch of personal information, saying he'd let me act, and he'd offer any terms he wanted."
At this point, Ning Xiaoxiao sighed: "I thought I could act as soon as I got here, but I didn't expect to have to go through an audition."
Lai Lai shared the same sentiment: "I auditioned for the fourth female role for nine rounds, and I was the only one left. I thought the fourth female role had to be mine, but he told me that I was more suitable for the more challenging role of the mute girl Liu He."
When they thought about how they were all deceived by Vincent's mouth, they were like two brothers in distress, and they told him the truth without mercy about the promise Vincent had made for them.
The two were chatting here without any tension, when another interviewee, called by the staff, walked into the interview room with a heavy heart.
Ning Xiaoxiao touched Li Li's hand and whispered, "Actors who have worked with Vincent twice all feel nervous. Are we too relaxed?"
Li Li understood her nervousness and said, "It's because she knows the director's interviewing style too well."
Ning Xiaoxiao agrees: "Actors must always have a sense of crisis."
The first actor interviewed for three hours.
Originally, Li Li and Ning Xiaoxiao were not nervous, but unexpectedly, they became more and more nervous as time went on. No one was in the mood to play with their phones or talk anymore. Like those preparing for the test, they took out sign language videos and started reviewing.
In the afternoon, Ning Xiaoxiao was called for another interview.
During the two hours of waiting, Li Li felt that he was suffering more than ever before.
I had no idea what the interviewer was doing, and I didn't know if I could perform well.
After the third torturous hour, Li Lai was invited to the interview room by the staff.
As soon as he opened the door, Vincent said, "When you come through this door, you must show your professionalism."
Li Li touched the metal handle on her hand with her thumb and answered "OK" in her heart.
The staff handed over a piece of paper and asked Li Li to act out a scene of her cleaning and washing clothes at home.
Taking a look at the empty basins and a pile of clothes pushed in by the staff, Li Lai felt that she seemed to be a part-time worker they hired.
This is their clothes for a week. Now that we live in a technological society, why don’t we use washing machines?
The first two interviewees also spent three hours washing clothes?
What kind of new interview is this?
After five seconds of doubt, Li Li started washing clothes.
Dark clothes and light clothes were placed separately, and I sat on a small stool and started to rub the clothes.
Rub repeatedly with laundry detergent from collar to cuffs.
First light-colored clothes, then dark-colored clothes.
He washed the clothes one by one, and then put them on the clothes drying rack next to him. Finally, he took a mop and mopped the place where he had just washed the clothes.
"Li Li."
Someone is calling his name.
Li Lai kept rubbing the clothes, but she was thinking to herself, is she still a fledgling new actor? As soon as she entered the room, Vincent told her that she had to show her professional skills, so she started to prepare.
No response, continued to wash the clothes.
"Li Li, you are washing clothes again. You really love cleanliness." A staff member walked up to Li Li from behind and talked to her. Li Li responded with a smile.
"Let me help you mop the floor."
Li Li waved his hand and smiled to express his refusal.
He bent down and mopped the floor clean, then went out.
When Li Lai went out, she was still holding a mop in her hand. She didn't know what she was thinking, but she just took out the mop casually. Since that was the case, she went to the bathroom to clean the mop and then brought it back.
When I came back, I found that the interview room was locked.
!!!
I was definitely tricked into doing laundry by the interview.
After finishing the interview, Li Li sent a message to Ning Xiaoxiao, asking about the results of the interview.
Ning Xiaoxiao asked questioningly, "Are all your interviews in the entertainment industry so weird? You don't consider basic skills like acting and lines, and just make the interviewee wash dishes?"
Li Lai: "I washed four or five basins of clothes. I suspect I went there to help them wash their clothes."
Ning Xiaoxiao: "Your entertainment industry is really deep."
Li Lai really wanted to ask the first interviewee whether he cooked or mopped the floor. Ning Xiaoxiao said that she didn't have the other party's contact information, and Vincent didn't give accurate information when he left. It was estimated that he didn't pass the interview.
Since I didn’t pass the interview, I still have to continue working.
A week later, while filming a commercial project, Li Lai received a call from Vincent: "Come to the interview location on Monday for the script reading."
It was not until she got the script that Li Lai knew that she would play the second female lead Liu He in "The Target of the Chaser".
The other two leading actors are Zhang Yiman and Zhang Binqing.
With these two veteran film actors and actresses leading the cast, the film's popularity is guaranteed, and the rest depends on each person's true abilities.
Liu He is a mute girl who lives in a remote rural area. She has a divorced brother and a younger brother who is in school. In order to arrange the marriage of their two sons, her parents decide to sell their daughter to a family in the city who is anxious to find a daughter-in-law, so as to defraud a high bride price.
Half a year after the marriage, she threatened her daughter to go home to visit her mother on the pretext that her mother was critically ill. Liu He and her husband Meng Jiang returned to the countryside together. Liu He's parents took the opportunity to imprison Liu He. Meng Jiang thought that Liu He was being bullied and planned to take Liu He away quietly at night, but he was beaten to death by Liu He's brother and father.
In order to cover up the crime, the Liu family decided to move away.
After the old couple of the Meng family found out that there was no news from their child, they went to Liuhe's house to look for him. They found their missing son in the toilet, and began to chase their daughter-in-law Liuhe.
After reading the script, Li Lai discovered that this drama was not only a murder-hunting and revenge drama, but also targeted vulnerable groups.
Obviously Liu He did nothing, and was not even her SHA's, but the Meng couple identified her as the SHA's murderer, all because the neighbors said that Liu He had been married before, and later had a car accident, so she took the pension and returned to her parents' home.
At the script reading session, Vincent also briefly talked about the shooting rules.
Li Lai will first go to the countryside to experience life for a month, and then he will take the filming crew to shoot the movie, while the rest of the actors will stay in the city on standby.
After the meeting, Li Lai specially greeted Zhang Yiman and said that he was honored to be able to co-star in a drama with Zhang Yiman.
"This is also your ability. When I heard you audition for the fourth female role, Vincent, I felt sorry for you. It's not that you are at a disadvantage for playing a small role, but I think you should play a better role."
This role is not ordinary good.
She is the core character of the whole drama, and many important scenes are about her.
She is also under a lot of pressure now. She is already under a lot of pressure before she officially performs.
Can she act well?
Logically speaking, with two veteran actors playing the male and female protagonists, as long as Li Lai does not let down, he should gain huge popularity with this film.
But Li Li also has ambitions.
She is the protagonist of the story and she must be the most dazzling presence in the entire film.
On the way to the filming location, Li Li asked Vincent why he chose her.
"The sign language teacher said that you go to the market and supermarket every day and communicate with people using sign language. You are obviously well prepared in this regard. So I don't need to think about the sign language issue, but start thinking about your ability to work."
"Ah? Workability." Li Li asked.
"I want an actor who can work and survive, not a sign language interpreter. Of the three interviewees, your acting and sign language skills are comparable. The good thing is that you can do housework and wash clothes and mop the floor without any drag."
Li Lai didn't know what to say. She had been working outside for twelve years. She had never done these jobs before, but now she had learned how to do them through practice.
Vincent gave her the ticket and address, and told Li Lai to find the place and stay at the village chief's house first. She should behave like the other villagers, not do anything special, and not post any social updates.
"What if I get recognized?" Li Lai felt that he had been on TV frequently recently and was a celebrity.
"Don't worry, the place I chose for you is very remote," Vincent said confidently, "no one will be able to recognize you."
When I went back and told Lan Yan that I wanted to experience life in a remote place, Lan Yan was also afraid. After searching the Internet for a long time with the train ticket, he said worriedly: "I will go with you, so that we can take care of each other."
"Vincent said there are crew members in the village setting up a filming location, so there's no danger."
"I'm afraid the road is dangerous. The place he chose is too remote."
Lan Yan told Li Li the news he had heard.
Considering the historical background of the film, Vincent started to select suitable villages across the country a year earlier.
At the beginning, he had already decided on a location and was going back to select actors when the township called him and said that the province was going to build a highway there and asked him if the filming could be done faster, otherwise it would delay the construction of the highway.
In order to not delay the construction of the highway and economic development, Vincent drove a jeep around the country to select a suitable location.
It took another year to pick out a suitable place for filming among dozens of villages. After confirming that the village would not change in the next three or four years, Vincent finalized the deal.
"You have to take the high-speed rail to the city first, then take the train to town, and then drive four hours to the village." Lan Yan said, "I'd better go with you. If anything really happens, we can still look after each other."
"What about the company?" Li Li was very worried that Lan Yan's departure would be an opportunity for the company's top management to make trouble.
Lan Yan, who was busy booking train tickets, asked Li Lai a question: "We should be friends, right?"
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